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Middle English
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dwers, dwars or Middle Low German dwēr, akin to Middle High German twer, twerhe, Old English þweorh.
Noun
dwere
- doubt, dread, perplexity, uncertainty
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum viij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book X, by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC; republished as H
Oskar Sommer, editor,
Le Morte Darthur , London:
David Nutt,
,
1889,
→OCLC:
Than Kynge Marke rode tyll he com to a fountayne; and there he rested hym by that fountayne, and stoode in a dwere whether he myght ryde to Kynge Arthurs courte other none […].- (please add an English translation of this quotation)